Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.

My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.